Medical Schools

Hugh Bayley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what capital is being made available to the new medical schools for research laboratories and equipment. [67150]

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Margaret Hodge:
The Higher Education Funding Council for England issues capital grants to higher education institutions including those with medical schools, which are used for a number of purposes. The Department of Health has provided additional NHS research and development funding to the NHS Trusts associated with some of the new medical schools to facilitate the development of the research infrastructure in those localities.

Schools (Somerset)

Mr. Liddell-Grainger:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools in Somerset provide up to two hours of sport and physical education each week. [67588]

Mr. Stephen Twigg:
The Government are committed to all children having two hours of high quality physical education (PE) and school sport a week, within and outside the curriculum. The Specialist Sports College and the School Sport Co-ordinator programmes are helping schools make that a reality. From September 1.8 million pupils will be benefiting from the School Sport Co-ordinator programme within 142 partnerships with nearly 750 co-ordinators and over 3500 primary or special school link teachers.

The Department for Education and Skills does not collect data on the number of schools in Somerset that are providing the two hour entitlement. However, we do know that Somerset currently has 1 School Sport Co-ordinator partnership (with 6 co-ordinators) and King Arthur's Community School will begin operating this September as a Sport College. Nationally we estimate that about 25 per cent. of schoolsthose within School Sport Co-ordinator Partnershipsare offering their pupils access to the two hour entitlement. However, an audit due to take place during the autumn term will check this assumption.

Discretionary Awards

Mr. Willis:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list for each LEA where EMAs have been introduced the amount of resources allocated for discretionary awards in each of year since 1997. [67470]

Margaret Hodge [holding answer 5 July 2002]: Prior to 199899, funding for discretionary support was made within the Education SSA. This is not broken down into specific funding lines and individual LEA allocations are therefore not available. In 1999, discretionary funding for young people post-16 in schools was transferred to the School Access Funds. The amount of School Access Funds made available to LEAs for discretionary support in the EMA pilot areas is set out in the table.

Separate allocations of Access Funds are also made available to colleges, including sixth form colleges. The amounts are listed in the Further Education Funding Council and Learning and Skills Council Circulars (FEFC Circulars 97/32, 98/29, 99/27,00/14, LSC Circular 01/08).

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£000

LEA

19992000

200001

200102

200203

Original pilotsSeptember 1999

Bolton

31,775

8,168

22,932

32,192

Cornwall

35,249

12,782

22,267

30,043

Doncaster

76,318

19,002

59,579

83,378

Gateshead

42,754

9,969

29,413

36,716

Greenwich

106,541

89,763

25,382

35,523

Lambeth

20,280

17,358

5,000

5,200

Leeds

121,873

121,873

62,456

82,634

Lewisham

45,590

45,590

12,891

14,517

Middlesbrough

5,000

5,000

5,000

5,000

Nottingham

16,394

8,081

11,937

16,757

Oldham

26,649

6,875

14,689

20,502

Southampton

5,000

5,000

5,000

7,019

Southwark

13,813

17,033

5,000

7,019

Stoke on Trent

n/a

5,000

5,000

7,019

Walsall

77,693

15,996

57,853

81,214

Pilots from September 2000

Barking and Dagenham

31,952

56,794

16,059

20,050

Barnsley

8,862

11,521

5,000

6,413

Birmingham

250,401

426,700

122,120

167,782

Bradford

170,393

279,138

81,562

112,280

Brent

67,643

115,818

32,749

33,843

Camden

54,427

103,446

43,382

60,899

Coventry

60,859

101,777

43,271

57,946

Ealing

70,083

115,418

32,636

32,636

East Lancashire(12)

104,844

136,297

205,287

213,863

Hackney

34,610

44,993

16,990

21,971

Halton

18,970

31,233

11,028

12,927

Hammersmith and Fulham

30,002

31,233

11,028

12,927

Haringey

80,542

104,705

29,607

29,607

Hartlepool

8,048

13,329

6,748

9,473

Islington

14,172

26,227

7,655

8,472

Kingston upon Hull

6,589

11,267

5,000

6,395

Knowsley

41,840

54,392

15,380

15,380

Leicester City

18,642

33,103

16,298

20,961

Liverpool

255,980

332,774

131,392

184,447

Luton

5,000

8,212

5,000

5,200

Manchester

38,772

62,767

24,626

31,748

Newham

29,252

47,417

18,771

26,351

North East Lincolnshire

5,000

9,453

5,000

6,603

North Tyneside

30,432

52,119

19,282

27,067

Northumberland

56,949

96,015

38,872

54,568

Salford

5,000

5,000

5,000

5,200

Sandwell

47,012

61,116

22,093

29,288

Sheffield

65,965

85,755

28,773

40,392

South Tyneside

9,137

15,009

7,993

11,220

St. Helens

20,033

85,755

28,773

40,392

Suffolk

74,794

127,213

179,856

187,370

Sunderland

35,298

45,888

84,777

88,319

Tameside

5,378

8,720

5,000

5,200

Tower Hamlets

112,052

145,667

52,669

72,380

Wakefield

30,064

39,083

15,264

21,428

Waltham Forest

14,349

26,980

7,629

9,664

Wandsworth

30,851

60,310

17,054

17,054

Wigan

9,599

16,169

5,000

6,998

Wirral

96,184

165,221

46,719

62,588

Wolverhampton

59,149

98,585

45,139

62,380

Worcestershire

32,816

59,959

18,839

25,892

Totals

2,766,874

3,740,068

1,859,720

2,330,307

(12) Figures shown are for the whole of Lancashire

Education Maintenance Allowance

Mr. Breed:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many young people received educational maintenance allowance (a) by variant and (b) by region in each year since 1999. [67086]

Margaret Hodge [holding answer 5 July 2002]:(a) The following table shows the number of young people in receipt of education maintenance allowance by variant.